 G'day mate 40 here So one of the things that makes Labrera tough. It's so awesome Is that there are no Homeless here, right no drug dealers All right They're pen handlers They're just good people Sold to the earth people So I can't all of LA be like this I keep your dogs leashed Keep your homeless leashed so one challenge to effective homelessness policies is This notion pushed by the ACLU and others that Homeless have a right to just live on the streets But do they really? I mean many of them are crazy Homeless crazy often the drug addicts out of their minds on drugs and alcohol and so Let's be all libertarian about it the non-aggression principle like a bunch of homeless dudes like right here They were just lying there in the bushes that would be aggressive against You know my feeling of ease and calm is when people are sufficiently violating They're the norms of public behavior That's such as by you know peeing and defecating in the bushes here and That's an aggression against me against the fine citizens of California so There's someone jacking off in the bushes. That's an aggression Against my sense of decency and peace and calm. I don't want to encounter Man jacking off in the bushes. I just want to be free To commune with God my fellow Los Angelinos Here and the beauty of this great city And so I'm quite willing to Do away with the homeless as civil rights to live on the streets and to defecate on the streets I was reading Kevin Starr's book on California and it came out in 2003 and And he predicted that the California would by 2020 have a population of 50 million Not true, right? We're still at 40 million. California's population basically hasn't changed in 20 years No, okay with that so we have about half of the nation's homeless and How do we reduce the number of homeless in California? Without incentivizing other homeless people to move here. So a lot of locations I call the city Santa Monica Beverly Hills that very few homeless Why do they have very few homeless because they're discouraged From hanging out. It's not They're fine homeless in rural California counties. I think they're about 58 counties in California Most of the counties are rural and you don't find homelessness in Lassen County or Yellow County or The more rural aspects the homeless overwhelmingly congregate in Los Angeles San Francisco Bay Area And a few in Sacramento so This is like Reno, right? They'd give the homeless a hundred dollars and a bus trip to San Francisco Just to get rid of them. So I Don't want to build affordable housing California Right, you have to be after pay Fair dinkum prices for fair dinkum housing or move to a state where there's cheaper housing I don't want to incentivize being a loser I want to incentivize being a productive tax-paying citizen So protect civilization protect California. I think we first of all have to protect the taxpayers look out for their interests and We have to start cracking down on anti-social behavior Anything like the squeegee men that they used to have in New York City You have to crack down on that we have to Return to the crime of a vacancy Have to build more prisons Prosecute people lock them up for a long time so Anti-social behavior is an aggression on me They're the upright citizen So I'd like to see a government that incentivizes pro-social behavior which is paying for People who work hard and pay their taxes and And paid incentives against going on welfare and disability and being homeless and drug addict and vagrant so Yeah, I'd like to return to the days where we institutionalized people who are acting mad Restart restocking our institutions We should be after have clean or lighted Social places like this And there's no anti-social behavior perfectly clean restrooms There's water to drink for free lavish museums It's good healthy Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles behavior and I Think that Gavin Newsom the governor of California start with a good job I give him a C or a B The roads generally work Most of the work stuff that he does isn't particularly important He's I think he's proven himself to be a competent governor and L.A.'s last mayor Ari Garcetti. He's been competent and Karen Bass, right? She's a big lefty But she seems to be competent. Let's have to disincentivize the homeless of the Country coming to congregate in Los Angeles in fair in Cisco Create more beautiful spaces like these lights at night They light up and couples love to come here and take photos. Well, he's certainly got his troubles, but I've been out and about for Seven miles of hiking through Beverly Hills Here into Park La Brea the Hancock Park, Fairfax Park It's been pretty dug on nice Especially we could find ways to expand this Beautiful space Fine, let's disney fire. Okay. I think New York City is a lot better when it became more disney-fied 42nd Street became more disney-fied So you say oh, you don't want it become disney-fied. You don't want it to become work and gay Well, I'd much rather have it become work and gay and safe and clean Like this Lawless like Somalia, but a lovely place to spend a Sunday afternoon. No trash No homeless No crime They're feeling a menace Great place to bring your family and children but to create safety It has to be pretty rigorous against the anti-social and the criminally inclined So they have to create space for tender, vulnerable, sensitive, kind, caring people Having friendly interactions They have to be pretty rigorous about taking out the trash Once you take out the trash, then you can create space for love to thrive Then what do you do with the trash? Well, you hire people with expertise in either rehabilitating them Or providing them with proper care But you don't want to incentivize normal people to become losers So that's why I'm strongly opposed to the legalization of marijuana Right, probably more than any other one thing and that is it tends to make Normal people into losers So I think it stinks that you walk around LA and constantly getting a good whiff of Marijuana It's a gateway drug guys Stay out the crack Look at this magnificent Peterson Automotive Museum Just fantastic Doesn't that make you happy? Used to work in that building I was a temp at details magazine I remember walking into the editor's office and asking him where I could Where I could send my book 100 years of section film to get a review I think he was particularly impressed Remember I worked as a temp at William Morris talent agency. I worked at Ben Silverman and Remember I was on the phone a lot One of the agents I was working for I said, what are you doing? You're writing a book? I said yes I am I was like calling retired FBI agents Get the low down and how they dealt with the sex industry Still the land of opportunity Isn't this lovely? You got the best museums don't we folks and this up the street here. We got shall have it high school one orthodox school Think along with she the University of Los Angeles for the modern also the dark state school the yearly tuition is about thirty five forty thousand dollars a year For that discounts and if you want discounts you have to submit your tax returns also documentation They're probably half or more of the students get some kind of discount, but on the positive side One thing that parents can do the fact their children You can have a tremendous influence on who is their peer group? So you send them to shall have it? She the University of Los Angeles their friends there and they're happy there you Created a peer group and a bubble for them they're against all the decadence and filth and other friends will be orthodox Jews and now Me not stay orthodox All right, but at least I'll have a clean Clean well lighted up ringing. That's the big reason a lot of Jews stay orthodox and become orthodox to here to save clean Shouldered from the pause and the filth upbringing for their kids and So most orthodox Jews are still virgins when they get married and they live in Beverly Hills and West L.A. Manhattan They're very affluent Urban environments and yet They grow up largely free of the pause not completely free. They still get affected by it And they still watch TV and stuff the internet but You have to show to your kids basically until they get married They have to go out into the world and work All right, so you have to provide them that sort of shelter and innocence and Friendliness of the soul. It's a beautiful beautiful thing. That's a Jerry Friedman It's in charge of this school and donated hundreds of thousands millions of dollars creating shall have it which is the most modern orthodox day school here in Los Angeles Now the schools really struggled during COVID Like as the parents said why are we paying the prism of $30,000 a year? for them to get education via zoom and because they were private schools They went back to meeting in person a lot quicker than the public schools. So public schools was largely shut down for two years About the private schools and the synagogues right they were back to eating in person within three months so I think that was a lot healthier For the parents for the kids. Come on get off the street Crazy Julie Hartman Dennis Prager's YouTube co-host talk, but Not bad for the Wall Street Journal. She was amazed at Harvard students They were such cheap in just going along with the COVID restrictions So Harvard students have worked very hard Get to where they're at and they've learned to play the game a part of the playing game is that you recognize or follow along with authority so Your average American didn't go to college a lot more rebellious against COVID restrictions Then they're more well educated Americans I'm not taking a position either way about who was right. I guess I think overall that that Many of the COVID restrictions were good and that our public health officials are the best they could now one thing I think a lot of people get wrong Public health approach a diplomat that is a terrific show the Kerry Russell The diplomat, I mean that's hilarious show On Netflix, but one thing that critics of COVID restrictions tend to get wrong. I think is That They have to dumb down the public health message so that people with 80 IQs can get it and so That's why I'm not offended People like Gavin Newsom breaking the rules higher IQ people They're able to understand and apply many of the nuances of slowing the spread of COVID and of course the more nuanced behavior I IQ people it's It's not going to follow exactly the public health measures that were instituted to try to curtail the possibly dangerous anti-social behaviors of the 90 IQ and 100 IQ crowd. So yeah, the public health measures look really stupid to 115 130 IQ crowd and above but you can't give different public health Messages to the 80 IQ 90 IQ 100 IQ 115 and 130 IQ crowd